Re: FAMU wins HCASC!

Charlie Steinhice <*steinhic_at_steinhice.yahoo.invalid*> · Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:37:42 -0000

Oooh, goody, a flame war!  We didn't have these when I was young.  
Mind if I take a shot at it?  

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, rosaparks54 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:

> (As a side note, Charlie Steinhice, why can't 
> you be that as quick in posting about your own tournaments as you 
> are in joining a flamewar in showing what a good guy you are?  
> Perhaps ACF was too hasty in its praise of you.)

Item #1: This was/is a more urgent matter.  I felt your original post 
needed to be mitigated by opinions to the contrary as quickly as 
possible, so anyone from the HCASC who found this discussion would 
not assume that your views were representative of the quizbowl 
community in general.  As Tom notes in his post on 
collegequizbowl.org, similar insults have led some key HCASC coaches 
to decide they don't want to get involved in circuit tournaments.  I 
have never heard of anyone who stayed away from future quizbowl 
tournaments because they were personally offended by the slow posting 
of results.

Item #2: Interesting you mention that last item, since to my 
knowledge it hasn't been posted anywhere, strongly implying that you 
were present at ACF Nationals.  Maybe that will narrow down the list 
of candidates for your secret identity.  (BTW, this is NOT to imply 
that ACF has any connection to these remarks.  I have been supportive 
of ACF since its inception and would not want to imply anything to 
the contrary.)

Item #3: Guilty as charged; I'm usually slow in posting results 
because right after a tournament I have to catch up on all the 
details of the rest of my life that I've pushed to the back burner 
all week -- not the least of which is time with my daughters.  (Plus 
I'm freakin' exhausted from trying to make my aged body run for as 
many hours as it did when I was 25.)  But I can understand why you'd 
be frustrated to have to wait so long for results to get posted -- if 
indeed you didn't know who Andrew Young was, then you must have to 
scroll all the way to the bottom of those results to find *your* 
scores.

(Gee.  That kind of felt good.  Even if this isn't exactly "showing 
what a good guy" I am.)